KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan man killed his daughter for allegedly committing adultery, officials said yesterday, but denied reports that she was stoned to death.

Media reports had said the woman was stoned to death in the Badakhshan province by villagers who caught her in the home of a man other than her husband — a punishment allowed under Islamic law and more commonly reported under the former Taliban government.

But police said the reports were mistaken and that Mohammed Aslam carried out the killing alone on Thursday.

The man she had visited was beaten as a warning but remained alive.

"With the fundamentalists and the hard-line mullahs who are in that area, these things are not impossible," said Shah Jahan Noori, the provincial police chief. "But I know that in this case she was not stoned."

Deputy Gov. Haji Shamsul Rahman said the woman went to the house of Mohammed Karim last Wednesday evening. He said Karim's father had spied the couple, locked them in the house and called people from the village to witness their supposed crime.

Mohammed Aslam was then summoned.

"According to our report, when Amina's father took his daughter back home, the father killed his daughter out of shame," Rahman said.

Neither he nor the police chief knew exactly how she was killed.

Mohammed Karim was beaten by the villagers "as a lesson to the other young people" but escaped with his life, Rahman said.

The officials said authorities were on their way to the village to detain Mohammed Aslam, Mohammed Karim, Karim's father and the woman's husband, who had returned from Iran.